Affan Dar is a senior engineering leader with over 25 years of industry experience specializing in distributed systems, cloud scale services, and databases. Currently, Affan leads engineering teams for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Microsoft, overseeing the Azure Database services. Previously, they managed the Database Engineering teams at Meta, developing the relational and key/value databases for the social graph. Affan also built the Azure IoT Platform team at Microsoft from scratch, delivering innovative Azure services. They earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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